Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
JAMES BALDWINYou think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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